“He spent most of his time there, didn’t he?”

“Some of it, but he wasn’t — wasn’t living with me.”

“Can you prove it?”

“Of course not,” she said. “I don’t take a notary public to bed with me.”

I took the cigarette from my lips, and yawned.

“Donald, what’s come over you? You don’t think I killed him, do you?”

“Didn’t you?”

“Don’t be silly.”

“Someone did.”

“And he had it coming to him, too, if you ask me.”